Hacker News: lovasoa

New comment by lovasoa in "Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser"

lovasoa — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:41:04 +0000

I tried a few PPTX files from consulting firms that are available online. The rendering does not seem to be truly pixel-perfect, but all of them were quite readable and had a good layout, which is already an impressive feat.

New comment by lovasoa in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

lovasoa — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:37:06 +0000

The details are interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskom#Corruption

New comment by lovasoa in "Redis array: short story of a long development process"

lovasoa — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:42:51 +0000

How much faster/slower are you with that process compared to writing code yourself?

New comment by lovasoa in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

lovasoa — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:35:20 +0000

I use the latest codex with gpt5.4 and Claude opus every day. they hallucinate every day. If you think they don't, you are probably being gaslighted by the models.

New comment by lovasoa in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

lovasoa — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:58:25 +0000

I was interested in the human results, so I had an llm build a visualization for them: https://codepen.io/lovasoaaa/pen/QwKWGBd

You can see that 17% of answers come from India alone and that software developers got below average results, for instance.

New comment by lovasoa in "Flux 2 Klein pure C inference"

lovasoa — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:25:25 +0000

The author of this project is also the author of redis. He knows what he is doing.

Running inference for a model, even when you have all the weights, is not trivial.

New comment by lovasoa in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

lovasoa — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:46:19 +0000

I use linux at home (with a HiDPI screen) and MacOS for work. The screen works well with both computers. I mostly just use a text editor, a browser, and a terminal though.

Linux has bugs, bug MacOS does too. I feel like for a dev like me, the linux setup is more comfortable.

SQLPage 0.38: transform SQL queries into web UIs for any DB

lovasoa — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:17:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sqlpage/SQLPage/releases/tag/v0.38.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45585717

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lovasoa in "SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think"

lovasoa — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:11:52 +0000

How do you call the opposite of green washing? When you want to show that you are burning as much energy on training models as the others.

New comment by lovasoa in "'Communities' of extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean"

lovasoa — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:10:37 +0000

Because we can

New comment by lovasoa in "SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit"

lovasoa — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:02:18 +0000

I use a fork of sqlx in SQLPage [1]. I think my main complaint about it is runtime errors (or worse, values decoded as garbage) when decoding SQL values to the wrong rust type.

* [1] https://sql-page.com/

New comment by lovasoa in "Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US"

lovasoa — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:58:35 +0000

A consortium of investigative journalists investigated and attributed the attacks the Ukraine's secret service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_pipelines_sabotage

New comment by lovasoa in "LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders"

lovasoa — Sat, 17 May 2025 22:08:16 +0000

No. The LLM's answer is correct.

New comment by lovasoa in "LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders"

lovasoa — Sat, 17 May 2025 22:07:05 +0000

No it is not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO_%28computing_and_electron...

New comment by lovasoa in "A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde"

lovasoa — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:27:12 +0000

In my opinion, the clean way to implement this is with methods instead of attributes for name, desired_speed, etc...

Show HN: A visual JSON schema editor

lovasoa — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:39:27 +0000

Article URL: https://json.ophir.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43507409

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by lovasoa in "GPT-4.5"

lovasoa — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:44:22 +0000

In the second handpicked example they give, GPT-4.5 says that "The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet" by the French painter Claude Lorrain is renowned for its luminous depiction of fire. That is a hallucination.

There is no fire at all in the painting, only some smoke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trojan_Women_Set_Fire_to_t...

New comment by lovasoa in "Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1"

lovasoa — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:10:32 +0000

If the electricity were generated by thousands of volunteers pedalling in their basement, then yes, I would expect the utility company not to be too greedy.

New comment by lovasoa in "Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?"

lovasoa — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:54:46 +0000

I tried passing just the plot to several models:

    ChatGPT (4o):      Noticed "a pattern"
    Le Chat (Mistral): Noticed a "cartoonish figure"  
    DeepSeek (R1):     Completely missed it
    Claude:            Completely missed it
    Gemini 2.0 Flash:  Completely missed it
    Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: Noticed "a monkey"

New comment by lovasoa in "LLMs: Harmful to Technical Innovation?"

lovasoa — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:50:39 +0000

This resonates with me. I used to love tinkering with "underdog" tech. I did frontends in svelte before it was cool. But for new projects, I now always default to react+tailwind, because that's what Claude knows best. And for the backend, I'm working on a SQL-only framework, because LLMs are now at almost 100% accuracy on text-to-sql.